The steppe elephant Mammuthus trogontherii (Pohlig) from the Irtysh region near Omsk

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• 作者：A. V. Shpansky ; S. K. Vasiliev ; K. O. Pecherskaya
• 关键词：Steppe elephant ; morphology ; skeleton proportions ; Middle Pleistocene ; Western Siberia
• 刊名：Paleontological Journal
• 出版年：2015
• 出版时间：May 2015
• 年：2015
• 卷：49
• 期：3
• 页码：304-325
• 全文大小：3,492 KB
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• 作者单位：A. V. Shpansky (1)
  S. K. Vasiliev (2)
  K. O. Pecherskaya (1)
  
  1. Tomsk State University, pr. Lenina 36, Tomsk, 634050, Russia
  2. Institute of Archeology and Ethnography, Siberian Branch, Russian Academy of Science, pr. akademika Lavrent’eva 1, Novosibirsk, 630090, Russia
  
• 刊物主题：Paleontology;
• 出版者：Springer US
• ISSN：1555-6174

文摘

A Pleistocene elephant skeleton was found in 1989 in the alluvial beds of the Tobolsk age on the Om River near the village of Ust-Tarka (Ust-Tarkskii District, Novosibirsk Region). The forelimbs and some thoracic and caudal vertebrae are not preserved. Judging from the heavy wear of M3/m3, this animal was about 50-0 years of individual age. The skeleton is about 3.5 m high at the withers. The geological age of the beds enclosing the skeleton and its morphological features suggest that it should be assigned to Mammuthus trogontherii.